PIPA supporters violating copyright — including cropping out credits #

Clay Shirky's TED talk on defending our freedom to share — or why SOPA is a bad idea #

Herpderpedia — hoping some of them channel their anger into picking up the phone #

Why Larry Lessig isn't at the center of the SOPA fight — the root cause of SOPA/PIPA is the corrupting influence of money on Congress #

Alexis Madrigal on the SOPA blackouts — "to solve this particular problem, Congress merely has to do what it does best: nothing" #

The Day the LOLCats Died — "our web means more that lawyers, lobbies, and lies" (via) #

FARK goes white to protest SOPA/PIPA — the video says it all #

Stop the Wall — great video from Reddit's Alexis Ohanian on stopping SOPA/PIPA, and a handy tool to make calls #

The Oatmeal on SOPA — love that he says he's pirated constantly, but that this is the wrong way to address it #

The Rise and Fall of Personal Computing — awesome research and charts from Horace Dediu #

Visualizing Twitter conversations about SOPA — nice graph work by Fred Benenson using Slurp 140, Google Refine, R, and Cytoscape #

BuzzFeed's 20 Images That Will Change Your Life — well played, BuzzFeed #

Algorithmic Search for Love — an automated supercut machine, it uses a locally-hosted film collection and caption transcripts (via) #

Reddit's technical examination of SOPA and PROTECT IP — Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing, and others are all going dark tomorrow in protest; join them #

The Fixie Bike Index — tongue-in-cheek guide to measuring hipster cities based on used bike listings (via) #

Cut the Rope in HTML5 — smoothest game I've seen so far, how it was made; related: Command and Conquer (via) #

NYT on productivity and privacy — contrast that with Square's new office (via) #

Mark Otto on building Twitter's Bootstrap — Bootstrap 2.0 is shaping up nicely #

Jerry Yang resigns from Yahoo — I always liked Jerry, I hope he starts something new #

ClueDB — Joshua Schachter's repurposed his lifehack site into a daily email #

Elevator: Source — delightfully surreal co-op elevator simulator; watch the gameplay video #

Hello — Lionel Ritchie recreated with film clips #

Mocality's sting operation to catch Google Kenya's poaching their listings — missed this while I was out last week, some fantastic investigative work starting with unique user-agent/IP combos #

Dying Fetus – Grotesque Impalement (Radio Disney Version) — another brilliant genre-bending cover from Andy Rehfeldt; related: Justin Bieber as death metal #

Making Love to WebKit — try scrolling; the 3D header doesn't contain any images (via) #

Where the top 100 box office films of 2011 are streaming — Netflix only had four of the top 100, less than half the previous year #

Google Image Search recursion — the Universe, Google, and LulzSec are featured prominently (via) #

My Guantánamo Nightmare — also: Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor; commemorating its shameful 10th anniversary (via) #

Kickstarter's Year in Review 2011 — amazing look back, don't miss the interactive stats post with nearly $100M pledged last year #

Key Features — commissioned interactive fiction by Andrew Plotkin, with in-game objects available as MakerBot-printable designs #

The Restart Page — reboot sequences from retro GUIs (via) #

NASA goes open-source — finally, I can process National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project Sensor and Environmental Data Records! #

Kill Screen's top 25 games of 2011 — along with all the judges' ballots #

SOPA-supporting news networks uniformly ignored SOPA — CNN was the only network to mention it, once (via) #

horse_ebooks: This is a romantic story. If you do not — from a wonderful Tumblr of fanfic inspired by everyone's favorite spambot #

Vi Hart joins Khan Academy — my favorite mathemusician working one of the best online learning resources (via) #

Google penalizes Chrome homepage after paid links debacle — bizarre story of an ad buy gone awry and the self-flagellation that followed (via) #

@StealthMountain — the responses are hilarious #

Paypal hates violins — bizarre policy, I wonder what else they've ordered destroyed? #

Record MP3 — dead-simple utility for recording audio and getting a link, perfect for MTurk tasks #

Robot avatar brushes a cat remotely in virtual reality — using a Kinect, head-mounted display, Wii remotes, and treadmill for navigation #

Real-life Wipeout using quantum levitation — sadly, appears to be a rendered fake for a viral ad; but it's very doable #

Clay Johnson on confirmation bias and the election cycle — this should be an Internet law: "Anything we want to be true we can find online." #

Metafilter's Best Post Contest winners announced — some incredible entries, including Falco's career, Muppet Labs, and the untold story of Sesame Street's David #

js.js, a Javascript interpreter in Javascript — yo dawg; related: Narcissus, a more practical take on the same idea (via) #

Clean Your App Permissions — handy links to the popular app permission dashboards #

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment — "writhe in pain and dislodge the eagle!" #

Scrollorama — fun jQuery plugin for scrolling effects; related: Impress.js #

Code Year, learn to code in 2012 — free service from Codecademy sends an interactive coding lesson to you weekly (via) #

David Weinberger's Top Ten List of Top Ten Lists of Top Ten Lists  #